God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert Camus

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
Albert Camus

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.
William Morris

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
Billy Graham

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy Graham

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Bill Gates

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
Rodney Dangerfield

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Smith

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
Adam Smith

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Adam Smith

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
John Adams